This is the final design of my front cover, as you can see I have included all of the conventional aspects of Empire magazine, however added my own personal design features, such as colouring, text layout, images, and what information is to be included on the front cover. By including bright images and text with a contrasting black background, it ensures that the magazine will catch the eye, as with most front covers both the background, text and images are brightly coloured, my cover which has a dark background would possibly make it stand out more efficiently. With use of relevent images which are all movie related it will therefore appeal to the target audience (being movie lovers), and considering the movie stills i have included are movies that are highly anticipated it will in turn add more interest from the audience members. By using larger, more bold font for the main text on the cover i have ensured that this particular bit of text will have the most impact on the audience. "STONE COLD ACTION" this suggests to the audience that there will be significant drama in the advertised movie and that there is little-to-no emotions involved. The main image in the centre of the page which has been created in a silhouette format of a man dressed in a suit suggests to the audience that the main character plays a role of authority or possibly importance and that despite his clean appearance he is the one who will be causing most of the drama.
As well as all the textual aspects of my cover, one other important aspect that comes with almost every top quality magazine is imagery, which are use both to convey the tone of the cover as well as for entertainment purposes. As this is a movie magazine I thought it best to include images which are relevant to the genre of the magazine, therefore my images were entirely film or movie related. By using images of recent films which have been rated highly it will intrigue the audience into a particular movie and make audience members eager to find out why that film has been so successful, movie images I have chosen to include are Super 8, Harry Potter and the deathly hallows part 2 and Contagion which have all been fairly recently released therefore ensuring that not everyone has seen it, so intrige will still be present. Overall I decided to include font colouring of only red and white, the reds I have used are a method of establishing danger and violence to the audience whereas the contrasting white, which suggest purity, act as a means of supplying the audience with the idea that although there will be danger it can all be resolved. Below the images I have incorporated information on topics that will be found within the magazine, and by using elliptical construction to ensure little information is given away it will then entice the audience into reading the stories within.
When creating my movie magazine front cover I thought it would be best to follow the format of one of the most successful magazines on the market, Empire. I gathered research from various examples of Empire magazine front covers as a means of gaining and idea on how to design and structure my own cover. I decided to follow the main layout of the conventional Empire front cover in order to convey verisimiltude and therefore making it more appealling to the target audiences. Athough the layout of Empire magazine rarely alters, the font styles do change significantly with regards to what the main subject of the cover is, for example on one front cover which advertised 'Tron' the font had a glowing outline which ensured that the film be firmly conveyed as science-fiction rather than a different genre. The font style I chose to incorporate into my front cover is a very bold and plainly coloured in black and white, which I believe suggests to the audience a serious and possibley aggressive atmosphere. It is also a somewhat retro styled font which could give the audience the idea that the movie may include some old-fashioned values or traits. The colour scheme chosen for my front cover consisted mainly of dark backgrounds coupled with contrasting text colouring, I believe this will ensure that my magazine was contrasting enough from other covers and to maintain an appearance that would stand out from the rest.
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